html native datalist?
The behaviour of an HTML datalist is basically completely different in every browser. It is a highly flawed element.
Readit Newssimongray commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
How does programming with Clojure targeting multiple platforms (JVM, JS, CLR, LLVM, ...) work?
Are there Clojure libraries that don't use JVM(/JS/...)-specific stuff that works on any Clojure platform/dialect? Can such libraries be used on Jank out of the box? Or do library authors have to do something explicit in their libraries to enable their use in specific platforms/dialects?
> How does programming with Clojure targeting multiple platforms (JVM, JS, CLR, LLVM, ...) work?
Each variant has its own file extension, e.g. .clj for JVM and .cljs for JS.
In case you're writing code that needs to work on multiple platforms, you put it in a .cljc file. Any of the code in these files that still needs to be different due to the platform choice is differentiated inline using a reader macro, which results in the different platform compilers getting a (slightly) different abstract syntax tree, so it is not too dissimilar from writing cross-platform code in other languages (just more convenient due to the Lisp style).
simongray commented on Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking hackernews.coffee/... · Posted by u/azath92
I genuinely find that interesting to hear. what about the 30 examples felt different to say the frontpage? (assuming it did)
On a meta level i was suuuuper conscious of writing every word of this post/comments myself, as my prior is that HN's community is very intollerant of and highly sensitive to low effort content, whether via AI or not. This is despite using AI tools for lots of other parts of work (drafting, coding, summarising, brainstorming etc).
Do you think HN has become more accepting of AI slop, the slop is becoming harder to detect, or isnt as discerning as i assume?
I'm not talking about the content but about the topics.
simongray commented on Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking hackernews.coffee/... · Posted by u/azath92
Having to rate the 30 examples made me realise just how much HN is dominated by LLM content these days. Kinda sad.
That’s not “most countries”.
Maybe you can argue why it's not most countries? It seems obvious to me that it is, but I also come from a country where everyone is bilingual.
Many former European colonies are mostly bilingual, e.g. Africa is highly multilingual out of necessity. Much of Europe itself is also mostly bilingual. If you want to communicate outside your own little region and your native language isn't a lingua franca, you need to be bilingual in this world.
The main holdouts when it comes to bilingualism are former imperial powers who managed to both kill domestic language diversity (e.g. France, UK, Russia) while also spreading their national language as a lingua Franca. Another group of holdouts are settler colonies such as the US, which didn't have a dominant native population after the arrival of Europeans.
But even if e.g. Russia itself isn't super bilingual, the rest of the former Soviet Union certainly is, since that is just the reality if you live in a small and/or formerly colonised country.
What's crazy is the US actually does have a decent proportion of multilingual speakers thanks to its history of immigration (a quick search reveals 20% of American residents are bilingual). Even Google staff should be a pretty multicultural bunch of people as they recruit globally.
I mean... 20% is not really a lot. It's probably a lot closer to 100% in most countries of the world.
> P.s. this thread will be gone within 1-2 hrs when the mods on PT time wake back up. Anything about European Digital Sovereignty is killed quietly and quickly here.
No it won’t.
It's gone from the frontpage now and isn't anywhere in the top 200 either. Hmmm. I guess he was right.
simongray commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh
From the bit of research I did on the Danish pension system, workers pay heavy taxes during their working years, and some of that is paid back to them in the form of a universal pension. In addition, almost all workers are covered by mandatory occupational pensions, with contributions of 9-17% of annual earnings.
That probably eats up the available savings for most workers. This change locks that money away until age 70.
Contrast that with the US, where Social Security is designed to replace an average of only 30% of a worker's income (much more at the lowest income levels), and you can take it as early as age 62. The most common retirement plans are 401k, 403b, 457b, and IRA. You can pull from any of them without penalty at age 59.5, and from the retirement plan of the company you're working for if you retire at 55 or later.
As I understand it, those ages would all be 70 in Denmark, and yeah it would be terrible. Not many people in the US are still working at age 70. Almost nobody doing serious physical work is still working at age 70.
* My information about Denmark's system may be wrong.
There are several early retirement systems in place in Denmark for people who are unable to work.
simongray commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh
Do people save their own money in Europe for retirement or do most people expect to rely entirely on pension? I honestly don't know, just curious.
It's different in every country. In Denmark it is a mix: everyone receives a state pension (the Nordic model of universal welfare), but almost everyone also has a private pension account that they out money into.